Harvard:Biophysics 242r/2011:Schedule

Course meetings are on Mondays and Wednesdays in CLSB521 from 100 pm to 230 pm, with immediately following optional project sessions from 230 pm to 330 pm; these optional sessions will commence on Wednesday, February 2.

Date

Presenter(s)

Topic

Monday, January 24 (Session 1)

William Shih

Course Overview, midterm projects, biomolecular nano primitives

Wednesday, January 26 (Session 2)

John Sadowski

software demo: nanoEngineer for biomolecular visualization

Monday, January 31 (Session 3)

William Shih

Origami and large structures

CANCELLED

Wednesday, February 2

Monday, February 7 (Session 4)

Special location: NRB335

Dave Zhang

DNA base-pairing biophysics and informational circuits

Wednesday, February 9 (Session 5)

William Shih

software demo: caDNAno for DNA-origami design

Monday, February 14 (Session 6)

Peng Yin

Dynamic DNA nanomachines

Wednesday, February 16 (Session 7)

Adam Marblestone

software demo: NuPack for sequence analysis and design

Monday, February 21

no class meeting (President's Day)

Wednesday, February 23 (Session 8)

Vatsan Raman

Computational Protein Design

Monday, February 28 (Session 9)

Vatsan Raman

software demo: FoldIt and Rosetta Protein Design

Wednesday, March 2 (Session 10)

students

Midterm Presentations

we may start early and end late; stay tuned for updates

Monday, March 7

no class meeting (Biophysical Society Meeting)

Wednesday, March 9

no class meeting (Biophysical Society Meeting)

Monday, March 14

no class meeting (Spring Break)

Wednesday, March 16

no class meeting (Spring Break)

Monday, March 21 (Session 11)

Peng Yin

Applications of DNA/RNA nanotechnology

Wednesday, March 23 (Session 12)

Adam Marblestone/Tom Schaus

Methods for nanoscale-device characterization/

software demo: Nucleic-acid kinetic simulation

Monday, March 28 (Session 13)

Joanna Aizenberg

Sea sponges: A textbook in materials physics

Wednesday, March 30 (Session 14)

Milan Stojanovic

1. Designs and Evolutions of Chemical Noses

2. Molecular Computing based on Nucleic Acid Catalysts

Monday, April 4 (Session 15)

Feng Zhang

Engineering DNA-binding proteins: zinc fingers versus Tal

Wednesday, April 6 (Session 16)

Shawn Douglas

software demo: caDNAno v2 for DNA-origami design

Monday, April 11 (Session 17)

Neel Joshi

Peptide and protein self-assembly with a focus on rational design of new assembly modes (Note: core staff away at FNANO Meeting)